Brooke > Brooke's Quotes

“Accept who you are. Unless you're a serial killer.”
― Ellen DeGeneres, Seriously... I'm Kidding

“Everyone's afraid of everybody else...maybe because we're all afraid of ourselves.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Impulse

“ If you hear a song that makes you cry and you don't want to cry anymore, you don't listen to that song anymore.
But you can't get away from yourself. You can't decide not to see yourself anymore. You can't decide to turn off the noise in your head.”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

“It's hard to be disappointed when what you expected turns out to be true.”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

“All bad nights come to an end.”
― Samantha Schutz, I Don't Want To Be Crazy

“Average. It was the worst, most disgusting word in the English language. Nothing meaningful or worthwhile ever came from that word.”
― Portia de Rossi, Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain

“It doesn't get better," I said. "The pain. The wounds scab over and you don't always feel like a knife is slashing through you. But when you least expect it, the pain flashes to remind you you'll never be the same.”
― Katie McGarry, Pushing the Limits

“Why do beautiful songs make you sad?' 'Because they aren't true.' 'Never?' 'Nothing is beautiful and true.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“A lot of you cared, just not enough.”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

“I've always believed that a person is smart. It's people that are stupid.”
― Marilyn Manson, The Long Hard Road Out of Hell: A shocking, candid memoir tracing Marilyn Manson's rise from frightened Christian schoolboy to feared rock superstar

“Most of the world's problems could be avoided if people just said what they fucking meant.”
― Marilyn Manson, The Long Hard Road Out of Hell: A shocking, candid memoir tracing Marilyn Manson's rise from frightened Christian schoolboy to feared rock superstar

“Fake
Is that what you are
if you choose to improve
the basic not perfect you?”
― Ellen Hopkins, Perfect

“When I was little, my friends would gush over wedding gowns and honeymoons. But I saw too many people flush decades together down the toilet over money or kids or meaningless flings. My own parents chose to stay married, which I think is rather funny, since they show about as much affection for each other as pit bulls in a ring. Tying the knot means slipping a noose around love and choking it to death.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Perfect

“I'm not mean, I'm honest. Nobody is ever straightforward. But sometimes people need to hear the truth.”
― Jessica Warman, Breathless

“Religion seemed to me like one group of people telling another group that their color of red was the best. And that everyone had to believe that, or else.”
― Julia Karr, XVI

“I hear you. I just don't believe a word you say.”
― Julie Anne Peters, By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead